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GAR COUPLING.

No. 310,854. v Patented Jan. 13, 1885.

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STEPHEN SOHROYER, OF POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO ABNER WOODWARD, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,854, dated January 13, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, STEPHEN SoHRoYER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pottstown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, have invented'certain Improvements in Gar-Couplings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a car-coupling constructed in the peculiar manner fully described and claimed hereinafter, the object and advantages of the features which constitute my invention being also hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved car-coupling; Fig. 2, a sectional plan on the line 1 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, part of Fig. 1, showing the coupling-pin elevated; and Fig. 4., detached views of parts of the device.

A is the draw-head, which may be of the usual construction, and in this draw-head are the block B, of wood, and the castiron block D, the latter being of the peculiar construe tion shown in Fig. 4. There is the usual opening, a, in the end of the draw-head for the reception of the ordinary link, 6, and openings 0 c in the upper and lower portions of the drawhead for the ordinary coupling-pin, E.

In the front edge of the block D is a recess, m, Fig. 4, made flaring at its entrance for the reception of the end portion of the link I), and this opening communicates with a vertical opening, 02, which contains the gravity-dog'H, the latter having atendency, owing to its projecting head, to assume the forwardly-inclined position shown in Fig. 3, where it can support Application filed September 18, 1884. (No model.)

the coupling-pin until it is moved back by the entrance ofthe link. The blockDis so rounded or beveled both on its upper and under sides that it can accommodate itself to the link, the latter being compelled to assume an inclined position, owing to the height of the draw-head of an adjoining car to which the link is coupled. The object of the block B is to retain the block D in place, and the block B is made of wood, so that it will absorb any shocksto which the head D may be subjected. A portion, '10, of the block B may enter a recess in the head, but the fitting must be such that the head shall be at liberty to tilt and accommodate itself to the inclination of the link as the latter enters the draw-head.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The combination of the draw-head A, and the cast-iron head, beveled or rounded above and below, and having a recess, m, with the gravity-dog H, containing the head, all substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the draw-head A, the head D, made self-accommodating to the link, the gravity-dog H, and the wooden block B, contained in the draw-head and interposed between the end of the latter and the head D, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN SGHROYER.

Witnesses:

J oHN M. CLAYTON, HARRY SMITH. 

